plea in bar

  • 11Bar shot — Bar Bar (b[aum]r), n. [OE. barre, F. barre, fr. LL. barra, W. bar the branch of a tree, bar, baren branch, Gael. & Ir. barra bar. [root]91.] 1. A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a… …

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  • 12Bar sinister — Bar Bar (b[aum]r), n. [OE. barre, F. barre, fr. LL. barra, W. bar the branch of a tree, bar, baren branch, Gael. & Ir. barra bar. [root]91.] 1. A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a… …

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  • 13Bar tracery — Bar Bar (b[aum]r), n. [OE. barre, F. barre, fr. LL. barra, W. bar the branch of a tree, bar, baren branch, Gael. & Ir. barra bar. [root]91.] 1. A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a… …

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  • 14plea — In common law pleading (now obsolete with adoption of Rules of Civil Procedure) a pleading; any one in the series of pleadings. More particularly, the first pleading on the part of the defendant. In the strictest sense, the answer which the… …

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  • 15bar — The court, in its strictest sense, sitting in full term. The presence, actual or constructive, of the court. Thus a trial at bar is one had before the full court, distinguished from a trial had before a single judge at nisi prius. So the case at… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 16bar — The court, in its strictest sense, sitting in full term. The presence, actual or constructive, of the court. Thus a trial at bar is one had before the full court, distinguished from a trial had before a single judge at nisi prius. So the case at… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 17Plea — For the pygmy backswimmer genus, see Plea (insect). In legal terms, a plea is simply an answer to a claim made by someone in a civil or criminal case under common law using the adversary system. Colloquially, a plea has come to mean the assertion …

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  • 18bar — Noun: A rail inclosing the officers of a court; the place in a court occupied by a prisoner on his trial. The court itself, as where one speaks of the case at bar. The attorneys at law taken collectively in a municipality, county, state, or the… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 19plea of prior jeopardy — A special plea in bar, required in some jurisdictions although not in others, to present the defense of former jeopardy. 21 Am J2d Crim L § 473. See prior jeopardy …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 20plea-bar|gain — «PLEE BAHR guhn», noun, verb. –n.Often plea bargain. act or instance of plea bargaining: »The vast majority of criminal sentences in the United States…are the result of “plea bargains” in which the defendant “waives” his constitutional right to… …

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